Holding credentials in Craft, Fine Art and Costuming, I use craft-practices to mediate embodied experience and memory. I blend the technical and conceptual - recognising hands respond to their tacit subjective experience. Intrigued by textures, ideas, the world and being in it, I believe objects have the power to absorb time, conjure experience, and hold stories.

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I seek to make things that matter, in ways that heal and honor Indigenous lives and the land on which we live; to bring awareness of and meaningful responses to climate crisis and social injustice.  I strive to practice sustainably, never taking my privilege nor the complexity of working on this land for granted.
 

My work has represented Canada at the Cheongju International Craft Biennale, South Korea (2009), Love Lace International Lace Competition Power House Museum, Australia (2011-13), and the Biennale Internationale du Lin de Portneuf – Deschambault, Quebec (20130. My work is in permeant collections at the Cambridge Art Gallery, Peel Art Museum + Archives, the City of Mississauga, and Daniels Corporation. Accolades include Finalist in the 2017 and 2021 Salt Spring National Art Prize, Best in Show at TOAE (2014, 2019) and the Carnegie Craft Biennale, (2013).

 

My practice has been supported by the Canada, Ontario, and Mississauga Arts Councils, and with residencies at the Banff Centre, Harbourfront Centre, Burren College of Art, Salt Spring Arts Council, and Barefoot College, Tanzania.

 

My studio practice includes professional theatre costume work. I am the Co-Founder / Production Designer of the dance-theatre company Frog in Hand Productions Inc. And I am a member of the local theatre costuming union IATSE 822. Highlights include &Juliet, Hamilton, Singin’ in the Rain, and Wicked, for Mirvish Productions.